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Preparing for a mobile phone uprising in Africahttp://www.theguardian.com/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010/feb/02/mobile-phone-sms-uprising
Anne Perkins reviews SMS Uprising: Mobile activism in Africa - a book that will help explain how mobile phones can be used in the field to anyone daunted by technology<p>The trouble with people who know about mobile phone technology is that they are a lot better at good ideas than they are at explaining to non-techies what their good ideas are for. So I fell upon <a href="http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100577370">SMS Uprising: Mobile activism in Africa</a>, a collection of essays by people who either write mobile applications or transfer them to the field, hoping that at last I would understand not so much what's going on as how.</p><p>To begin even nearer the beginning than this book does – and in case I am not the last person in the world to know – let me point out that SMS stands for (thank you <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_meaning_of_SMS">WikiAnswers</a>) Short Message Service, which is &quot;a communications protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices.&quot;</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010/feb/02/mobile-phone-sms-uprising">Continue reading...</a>Aid and developmentNewsKatineUgandaWorld newsMobile phonesAfricaWed, 03 Feb 2010 08:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/katine/katine-chronicles-blog/2010/feb/02/mobile-phone-sms-uprisingCathal McNaughton/PAA new book helps explain how mobile phones work. Photograph: PAAnne Perkins2010-02-03T08:00:01Z